ANTIQUITIES OF SELBORNE. 383 



Brought forward 28 ; 539 



Probus (emperor A.D. 276-282) 431 



Carus (emperor A.D. 282, 283) 12 



Carinus (Crcsar A.D. 282 ; emperor A.D. 283-285) 24 



Xumerian (brother and colleague of Carinus) 14 



Mag-nia Urbica (wife of Carinus) 2 



Diocletian (emperor A.D. 285-305) 75 



Maximiau (colleague of Diocletian, A.D. 286-305) 53 



Constantius Chlorus (Caesar A.D. 292 ; became emperor A.D. 305) 1 



Carausius (emperor in Britain A.D. 286-294) 545 



AUectus (ditto, A.D. 294-290) 90 



Total .... 29,788 

 The remaining fourteen cannot be distinguished. 



Among these coins there are many which must have come 

 from the mint in an imperfect state, some of them having 

 either no heads or no reverses, one having the same head on both 



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sides, some twice struck, either with the head of the same 

 prince or with the head of one prince on a coin previously 

 bearing that of another. 



With respect to the condition of these coins, it is worth 

 observation that those of Valerian, Gallienus, Salonina, Clau- 

 dius, Victorinus, the two Tetrici, and Carausius are generally 

 the most worn and defaced a fact which, as to those of Ca- 

 rausius (almost the latest in the whole series), seems remark- 

 able. All the imperial coins of later date than Aurelian (as 

 also those of Severina and many of Aurelian himself) and the 

 coins of AUectus are comparatively unworn and in fine con- 

 dition, except when (as has happened in a few cases) they 

 have sustained accidental damage, from excessive oxidation or 

 adhesion while underground, or in the processes of separation 

 and cleaning. In the legends and reverses there is great 

 variety. They include 726 varieties which have, and 367 

 which have not, been described in Cohen's ' Catalogue of the 

 known Imperial Roman Coins.' 



This is understood to be the largest deposit of Roman or 

 Roman-British coins ever yet found at one time in Great 

 Britain ; and it is rendered still more remarkable by the fact 

 (already referred to) that in the last century other large quan- 

 tities (the number has not been recorded) were found within 



